Bellows (guard)

Bellows (died 1557) was a French guard who served under King Henry II of France. In 1557, he was sent to guard the imprisoned Queen Catherine de Medici, but Catherine had him serve as a witness to her discovery of Diane de Poitiers' heretical "soul" necklace. When he told King Henry that he was willing to testify to Diane's heresy in public, Henry slashed him in the side of the neck with a sword in front of Catherine, another guard, Sebastian de Poitiers, and Mary, Queen of Scots, and he covered up Diane's heresy and Sebastian's heretical roots.